Oh wow, looks like a really cool and unique tool, that could save loads of time, for certain types of modelling. I do wonder though how useful it may be outside of its sphere of specialty.
It runs not so smooth, the brush feels weird, but sure was fun. When you have a really long stroke the lines can break, like it doesn't have enough polygons.
Will be trying this out soon. I had an idea to make something similar to this when I was messing with a 2D program called alchemy. It just places 2D shapes randomly to get silhouettes for concept art. I thought it would be cool to translate that into 3D.
Is it actually a pen that takes lines and turns them into 3D (i.e like how splines can take a circle and turn it into a torus)? Or is it a brush that just copies 3d objects over a path?
If it's the first option, that would be huge. I'd love to sketch stuff like triangles and have them become instant 3d spikes.
Well there's a drawing plane that you can quickly rotate around a 3d scene, then you draw strokes on it. I haven't played with all the tools yet, my impression is that each strokes are actual model and the apps pull them into your strokes. At least that's what I think seeing how longer strokes looks like (looks like a broken geometry).
There may be more modes you can play with from what I see in their demo video.
Haven't used it myself but yes it's definitely showing off a lot of placing instances of an object along a drawn path, but there are other methods you can see in the video too such as a spline lathe tool. There was a bit in the video where they generate a new solid mesh, just like in zbrush. Jump to 2:28 to see it. You can see the quick remesh feature in the top right where they click.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_h1FTiQ_g
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This tech go the way of Sculptris and find its way into Zbrush....
http://polybrush.org/forum/index.php/topic,25.0.html
Installer and the program exe has a trojan
anyway does the download link to the portable/zip version work for anybody? all i get is an empty file from that.
Is it actually a pen that takes lines and turns them into 3D (i.e like how splines can take a circle and turn it into a torus)? Or is it a brush that just copies 3d objects over a path?
If it's the first option, that would be huge. I'd love to sketch stuff like triangles and have them become instant 3d spikes.
There may be more modes you can play with from what I see in their demo video.
I'm liking what I'm seeing with this!